•Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State The sudden death of Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has triggered an intense political scramble across the state, with power brokers, party leaders and interest. With Governor Diri holding the ace, stakeholders are divided over whether Sagbama LG should retain the position — or whether...
•Impeached Lagos Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa Mudasiru Obasa’s reign as speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly was brought to an abrupt end yesterday after he was unanimously impeached by members of the Assembly. This piece highlights the hubris, battles and intrigues that sealed Obasa’s fate, reports The PUNCH. Yesterday, Mudashiru...
There are fresh intrigues over who succeeds the late Ohanaeze Ndigbo president, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu. Stakeholders yesterday warned against any attempt at manipulating the process leading to the January 2025 election of a new President General of the apex Igbo group, reports The Nation. A chieftain of the organisation, Chief Chekwas Okorie, the...
•Tinubu Year 2023 which will expire tomorrow is a year that most Nigerians will like to forget in a hurry. Reason: It began on a hard note and ended on a harder note for a host of the citizenry. Although, eventful politically on account of the high-wire intrigues that characterised the 2023 general elections especially […]
Nine months after the conduct of the presidential elections and more than three years to the conduct of the 2027 general polls, peace has not returned to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party, which lost the February 2023 presidential election to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has yet to recover from [&hell...

